The stadium built for a sports festival ended up hosting the Pan Am Games, Olympic trials and a soccer revival. IU Michael A. Carroll Track and Soccer Stadium at 1001 West New York Street opened in 1982 on the IUPUI (now IU Indianapolis) campus, built for 7 million dollars alongside the famous Natatorium for the National Sports Festival - the project that launched Indianapolis's deliberate self-reinvention as the amateur sports capital of America. Named for Michael A. Carroll, the civic leader a.....
The Egyptian Room was dressed in hieroglyphics before King Tut's tomb made them fashionable. When Helen Eaton Jacoby worked with architects Rubush and Hunter on a grand ballroom addition to Indianapolis's Murat Shrine, she chose motifs copied from ancient palaces and tombs near Thebes - and while the room was under construction in November 1922, Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun's tomb and made her design the height of style. The room opened on 15 December 1922, one of the earliest Egyptian Reviv.....
Tucked into the green expanse of White River State Park in downtown Indianapolis, the Everwise Amphitheater is the city's premier outdoor concert venue, set against a backdrop of lawns, waterways and the skyline beyond. Opened in the late 1990s and refreshed under a series of naming partners over the years, the amphitheatre has become a summer fixture, drawing audiences to its riverside setting for an open-air season of touring concerts. The venue combines a covered pavilion of fixed seats with.....
In the state that treats basketball as birthright, the NBA's most deliberately nostalgic arena was designed to look like a giant Indiana high-school gym. Gainbridge Fieldhouse, at 125 South Pennsylvania Street in downtown Indianapolis, opened on 6 November 1999 as Conseco Fieldhouse - a 183-million-dollar brick-and-glass throwback by architects Ellerbe Becket that rejected the sleek arena template on purpose. It is home to the NBA's Indiana Pacers and the WNBA's Indiana Fever, whose Caitlin Cla.....
A Saturday Night Live alum cut the ribbon: Jay Pharoah's five-show weekend opened this room on 8 March 2019, instantly giving Indianapolis the national-circuit comedy club it had lacked downtown. Helium Comedy Club, at 10 West Georgia Street inside Circle Centre at the corner of Meridian and Georgia, is the Indiana outpost of one of America's premier independent comedy chains. The build-out took 9,000 square feet of former mall space and turned it into a purpose-designed 275-seat showroom - tie.....
It began as a pandemic improvisation - a stage in the parking lot so the shows could go on - and became one of Indianapolis's favourite venues in its own right. The HI-FI Annex, behind the Murphy Arts Building at 1043 Virginia Avenue in Fountain Square, is the 900-capacity outdoor sibling of the HI-FI, the city's tastemaking 400-cap indoor club. The Annex was born in summer 2020, when promoter MOKB Presents converted the building's back lot into a distanced concert yard. The formula outlived th.....
No bar, no age limit, no pretence - just a low stage, a PA and whichever hardcore band is loading in tonight. The Hoosier Dome, at 1627 Prospect Street in the Fountain Square neighbourhood of Indianapolis, is the city's flagship DIY venue: an all-ages, drug- and alcohol-free room that has anchored the Midwest punk circuit since 2011. The mission has never wavered: founded to give people of all ages a positive place to see live music, the Dome has run on volunteer energy and community goodwill f.....
More hotel rooms connect to this building by climate-controlled skywalk than to any other convention centre in America - 4,700 of them, meaning a January convention never requires a coat. The Indiana Convention Center, at 100 South Capitol Avenue in downtown Indianapolis, opened in 1972 and has grown through five expansions into one of the nation's twenty largest convention complexes. The original 26-million-dollar Indiana Convention-Exposition Center opened with 160,000 square feet; the 1984 e.....
On the Central Canal in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, the Indiana State Museum has been the principal centre for the history, culture, science and art of the state since 1869. The collection moved through a series of homes during the twentieth century before settling into its present striking 270,000-square-foot building in May 2002. The 105 million dollar structure was designed by the Indianapolis firm Ratio Architects together with the New York-based studio Polshek Partnership Architects.....
